Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and … the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …

-paid employment, whether they become persistent, or whether they result in repeated unemployment. The empirical evidence is mixed …

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …

and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the … form of volatile wages and a high risk of low pay. …

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …

public wages are determined. Rigid public sector wages lead to perverse effects on private employment, while flexible public … wages lead to a stabilizing effect. Public employment also has important productivity and redistributive effects. …

public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate … unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and … there is little evidence of a sustained rise in wages for either unskilled rural or factory workers. …

Job displacement represents a serious earnings risk to long-tenured workers through lower re-employment wages, and …

-employment wages. The prevailing method of insuring job displacement losses involves an uncoordinated combination of unemployment …Job displacement poses a serious earnings threat to long-tenured workers through unemployment spells and lower re … to the administrative complexity of unemployment insurance systems. If both options are operational, systematic …